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		<title>Fixing Capitalism Means Taking Power Back From Business &#124; Business &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current argument that larger government impinges on rather than protects or advances individual liberties is a far cry from the ideas that fueled England’s Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution. It ignores the fact that the void created by smaller government is often not filled by “liberty.” via Fixing Capitalism Means Taking Power Back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=103&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buffett Challenges McConnell, Republicans on Tax Policy &#124; Swampland &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett: “I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.” via Buffett Challenges McConnell, Republicans on Tax Policy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=101&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Defining Issue: Not Governments Size, but Who Its For</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Reich The Defining Issue: Not Governments Size, but Who Its For.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=99&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much are Workers to Blame for Income Inequality? &#8211; The Curious Capitalist &#8211; TIME.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a given country, do more people benefit from less free trade or more free trade.  In other words, are most people better off overall if they are shielded from wage competition with countries who have very low pay structures and much lower standards of living? Or due more benefit from wide-open free trade? Another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=97&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer &#8211; Bloomberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[let’s remember that capitalists without customers are out of business. via Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer &#8211; Bloomberg.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=95&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Reich (The Rebirth of Social Darwinism)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Social Darwinism &#8230; allowed John D. Rockefeller, for example, to claim the fortune he accumulated through his giant Standard Oil Trust was “merely a survival of the fittest.” It was, he insisted “the working out of a law of nature and of God.” Robert Reich (The Rebirth of Social Darwinism).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=93&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peanut Butter Prices Are On The Rise &#8211; Video &#8211; KCRA Sacramento</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well that&#8217;s the last straw !   Take to the streets Peanut Butter Prices Are On The Rise &#8211; Video &#8211; KCRA Sacramento.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=91&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring veterans ( with a job )</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New rule: no military ventures without an &#8220;all veterans get a job&#8221; tax in place.   This would make things simple: we all agree to be taxed more up front, or no military venture. I think this is a much more appropriate way to honor veterans than flags and parades. Honoring veterans &#8211; Editorials &#8211; MiamiHerald.com. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=89&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Put the elderly on ice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Put the elderly on ice? &#8211; CNN.com. In a May article in The New Republic, Callahan (with co-author Sherwin B. Nuland) argues for a cease-fire in America&#8217;s &#8220;war against death,&#8221; calling on us to surrender gracefully; Americans thus &#8220;may die earlier than [is now common], but they will die better deaths.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=87&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short-termism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short-term thinking is apparently a common theme in discussions at the Occupy Wall Street protests.   See Jim Wallis&#8217; article:  &#8221;It’s time to move from a narrowly defined shareholder economy to a stakeholder economy that includes workers, consumers, the environment , and future generations — all in our economic calculations and decision-making.&#8221; via The “Un-Economy” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coolmusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6753540&amp;post=85&amp;subd=coolmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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